Edward G. Robinson Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Edward Goldenberg Robinson (born Emanuel Goldenberg, Yiddish: עמנואל גאָלדנבערג; December 12, 1893 – January 26, 1973) was a Romanian-born American actor. A popular star during Hollywood's Golden Age, he is best remembered for his roles as gangsters, such as Rico in his star-making film Little Caesar and as Rocco in Key Largo.Other memorable roles include insurance investigator Barton Keyes in the film noir Double Indemnity, Dathan (adversary of Moses) in The Ten Commandments, and his final performance as Sol Roth in the science-fiction story Soylent Green.Robinson was selected for an Honorary Academy Award for his work in the film industry, which was posthumously awarded two months after the actor's death in 1973. He was included at #24 in the American Film Institute's list of the 25 greatest male stars in American cinema.
January 26, 1973, Los Angeles, California, United States
Place Of Birth
Bucharest, Romania
Height
5' 7" (1.7 m)
Weight
53.5 kilograms
Profession
Actor, Soundtrack, Writer
Education
Townsend Harris High School, City College of New York, American Academy of Dramatic Arts
Spouse
Jane Robinson (m. 1958–1973), Gladys Lloyd (m. 1927–1956)
Children
Edward G. Robinson Jr.
Parents
Morris Goldenberg, Sarah Guttman Goldenberg
Awards
Academy Honorary Award, Cannes Best Actor Award, Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award
Nominations
Tony Award for Best Lead Actor in a Play
Movies
Little Caesar, Double Indemnity, Key Largo, Scarlet Street, The Woman in the Window, Soylent Green, The Ten Commandments, The Stranger, The Cincinnati Kid, The Red House, Bullets or Ballots, Kid Galahad, Brother Orchid, The Whole Town's Talking, Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet, Five Star Final, House of ...
Star Sign
Sagittarius
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Trademark
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His short, squat frame
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Unconventional, almost catfish-like mug
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Prideful, nasty and violent characters involved in the underworld
[om writer/director Richard Brooks] As feisty, individual, unpredictable and honest as any man I've ever known.
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[on Humphrey Bogart] I always felt sorry for him--sorry that he had imposed upon himself the character with which he had become identified.
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The sitting around on the set is awful. But I always figure that's what they pay me for. The acting I do for free.
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Some people have youth, some have beauty--I have menace.
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Acting and painting have much in common. You begin with the external appearance and then strip away the layers to get to the essential core. This is reality and that is how an artist achieves truth. When you are acting, you are playing a part, you are being somebody else. You are also, at the same time, being yourself.
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Paintings never really belong to one of us. If we are fortunate, as I have been, we are allowed at most a lovely time of custody.
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Of course, I started as a collector. A true collector. I can remember as if it were only yesterday the heart-pounding excitement as I spread out upon the floor of my bedroom The Edward G. Robinson Collection of Rare Cigar Bands. I didn't play at collecting. No cigar anywhere was safe from me. My father and uncles and all their friends turned their lungs black trying to satisfy my collector's zeal. And then came cigarette cards, big-league baseball players. I was an insatiable fiend, and would cheerfully trade you three Indian Joes for one of that upstart newcomer, Ty Cobb.
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I remember just before going onto the soundstage, I'd look in my dressing room mirror and stretch myself to my full 5'5" or 5'6"--whatever it was--to make me appear taller and to make me able to dominate all the others and to mow them down with my size.
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Ah yes, I remember well what it was like to be a true collector, that soft explosion in the heart, that thundering inner "Yes!" when you see something you must have or die. For over 30 years I made periodic visits to [Auguste Renoir's] "Luncheon of the Boating Party" in a Washington museum, and stood before that magnificent masterpiece hour after hour, day after day, plotting ways to steal it.
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To my mind, the actor has this great responsibility of playing another human being . . . it's like taking on another person's life and you have to do it as sincerely and honestly as you can.
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To be entrusted with a character was always a big responsibility to me.
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To last you need to be real.
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I have not collected art. Art collected me. I never found paintings. They found me. I have never even owned a work of art. They owned me.
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[on Double Indemnity (1944)] It was, in fact, the third lead. I debated accepting it. Emanuel Goldberg told me that at my age it was time to begin thinking of character roles, to slide into middle and old age with the same grace as that marvelous actor Lewis Stone . . . The decision made itself . . It remains one of my favorites.
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If I were just a bit taller and I was a little more handsome or something like that, I could have played all the roles that I have played, and played many more. There is such a thing as a handicap, but you've got to be that much better as an actor. It kept me from certain roles that I might have had, but then, it kept others from playing my roles, so I don't know that it's not altogether balanced.
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Fact
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His great grandson Adam Edward Sanchez, via granddaughter Francesca and her husband Ricardo, was born 10 years after his death on February 5, 1983.
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Became a grandfather at age 59 when his son Edward G. Robinson Jr. and his 1st [later ex] wife Frances Chisholm welcomed a daughter, Francesca Gladys Robinson, on March 27, 1953.
He was considered for the role of Don Vito Corleone in The Godfather (1972) before Marlon Brando was cast.
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Although it has been said that Robinson chose his stage name after an actor he had seen and admired, later he said he was just trying to keep his birth initials. He was unsure as to why he had settled on Robinson but would have chosen a shorter name if allowed to do it again as it takes a long time to write Robinson in an autograph.
Robinson suffered a heart attack while filming A Boy Ten Feet Tall (1963) in Africa,.
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Robinson's fellow student and close friend at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts was Joseph Schildkraut, who remembered, 'I looked at the girls, but Manny stuck to his work'.
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In 1949 he was investigated by the California Senate's Fact Finding Committee on Un-American Activities (colloquially known as the "Tenney Committee" after Committee Chairman Jack Tenney). Tenney claimed that Robinson, an unabashed progressive Democrat, was "frequently involved in Communist fronts and causes".
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When he died in 1973, he left an estate valued at $2,500,000 which largely consisted of rare works of art.
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Spoke seven other languages besides English, including Yiddish, Romanian and German.
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Donated $100,000 to the United Service Organization (USO) during WW2. Like many celebrities, Robinson also pitched in at the Hollywood Canteen and, being multilingual (he reportedly spoke seven languages fluently, among them Yiddish, Romanian and German), worked on broadcasts to countries occupied by the Nazis.
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Lived in a Yiddish community in Romania until he was 9.
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Member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1953.
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According to the March 31, 1941, issue of "Time" magazine, he and Melvyn Douglas bid $3,200 for the fedora hat that Franklin D. Roosevelt had worn during his three successful campaigns for the presidency. They acquired the hat at a special Hollywood auction to benefit the Motion Picture Relief Fund. Both Robinson and Douglas were identified as "loyal Democrats". Robinson would later be "grey-listed" during the McCarthy Red Scare hysteria of the 1950s and have to make his living on stage.
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Was named #24 greatest actor on The 50 Greatest Screen Legends by the American Film Institute
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Although best known for playing fierce, shady little men, Robinson was well liked by almost everyone off-screen, having been a sensitive, quiet, artistic type when not performing.
Pictured on a 33¢ USA commemorative postage stamp in the Legends of Hollywood series, issued 24 October 2000.
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Was originally slated to play Dr. Zaius in Planet of the Apes (1968) but dropped out due to heart problems.
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Incredibly, never nominated for an Academy Award. He was awarded an Honorary Oscar two months after his death. His wife, who accepted for him, commented on how thrilled he was to learn he would be given the award.
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Interred at Beth El Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York, in the Goodman Mausoleum.
$18 Million
